ISBN: 9781235750793

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… Mehr…

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850. Excerpt: ... THE WAR SYSTEM OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS. AN ADDRESS BEFORE THE AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY, AT ITS ANNIVERSARY IN BOSTON, MAY 28, 1849. That it may please Thee to give to all nations unity, peace, and concord.--The Litany. What angel shall descend, to reconcile The Christian States, and end their guilty toil?--Waller. I look upon the way of treaties, as a retiring from fighting like beasts, to arguing like men, whose strength should be more in their understandings than in their limbs.--Chables I. Eikon Basilikc. We daily make great improvements in natural--there is one I wish to see in moral--philosophy; the discovery of a plan that would induce and oblige nations to settle their disputes without first cutting one another''s throats. When will human reason be sufficiently improved to see the advantage of this?--Franklin. La meme politique qui lie, pour leur bonheur, toutes les families d''une nation les unes avec les autres, doit Her entre elles toutes les nations, qui sont des families du genre humain. Tous les hommes se communiquent, meme sans s''en douter, leursmaux et leurs biens, d''un bout de la tcrre a l''autre.--Bebnabdin De St. Piebee. Only the toughest, harshest barbarism of past ages--War--remains yet to be vanquished by our innate anti-barbarism. Thenis a growing insight of its unlawfulness.--Jean Paul. War is on its last legs; and a universal peace is as sure as is the prevalence of civilization over barbarism, of liberal governments over feudal forms. The question for us is only, How soon?--Emerson. EXTBACT FBOM THE SOCIETY''S RECOBDS. Voted, That the thanks of this Society he given to Mr. Sumner, for his able and eloquent Address; that a copy be requested for the press, and that efforts be made to give it the widest circulation possib... Charles Sumner, Books, History, Orations And Speeches [1845-1850] (volume 2) Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781235750793

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… Mehr…

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850. Excerpt: ... THE WAR SYSTEM OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS. AN ADDRESS BEFORE THE AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY, AT ITS ANNIVERSARY IN BOSTON, MAY 28, 1849. That it may please Thee to give to all nations unity, peace, and concord.--The Litany. What angel shall descend, to reconcile The Christian States, and end their guilty toil?--Waller. I look upon the way of treaties, as a retiring from fighting like beasts, to arguing like men, whose strength should be more in their understandings than in their limbs.--Chables I. Eikon Basilikc. We daily make great improvements in natural--there is one I wish to see in moral--philosophy; the discovery of a plan that would induce and oblige nations to settle their disputes without first cutting one another''s throats. When will human reason be sufficiently improved to see the advantage of this?--Franklin. La meme politique qui lie, pour leur bonheur, toutes les families d''une nation les unes avec les autres, doit Her entre elles toutes les nations, qui sont des families du genre humain. Tous les hommes se communiquent, meme sans s''en douter, leursmaux et leurs biens, d''un bout de la tcrre a l''autre.--Bebnabdin De St. Piebee. Only the toughest, harshest barbarism of past ages--War--remains yet to be vanquished by our innate anti-barbarism. Thenis a growing insight of its unlawfulness.--Jean Paul. War is on its last legs; and a universal peace is as sure as is the prevalence of civilization over barbarism, of liberal governments over feudal forms. The question for us is only, How soon?--Emerson. EXTBACT FBOM THE SOCIETY''S RECOBDS. Voted, That the thanks of this Society he given to Mr. Sumner, for his able and eloquent Address; that a copy be requested for the press, and that efforts be made to give it the widest circulation possib... Charles Sumner, Books, History, Orations And Speeches [1845-1850] (volume 2) Books>History <

ISBN: 9781235750793

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